Leander Anderegg

Assistant Professor

Plant ecophysiology, community ecology and biogeography. Ecological responses to climate change.

Cherie Briggs

Professor

2112 Noble Hall
Dr. Briggs’ research combines modeling and experiments to understand the factors affecting the dynamics of animal populations.

Deron Burkepile

Professor

4312 Marine Science Institute
Marine ecology, community ecology, trophic interactions, coral reefs.

Craig Carlson

Professor

3147 Marine Biotech
Microbial oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, bacterioplankton dynamics, dissolved organic matter, carbon cycle.

Eleanor Caves

Assistant Professor

Vision, behavioral ecology, animal behavior, evolution; visual perception in animals; signaling behavior, form, and perception.

Carla D'Antonio

Professor

4002 Bren Hall
Terrestrial plant community and ecosystem ecology, controls over vegetation change, feedbacks, restoration ecology.

Erika Eliason

Associate Professor

2306 Marine Science Institute
Ecological and evolutionary physiology, Fish biology, global change biology, comparative physiology.

Thomas Even

EEMB Vice Chair
Senior Lecturer

4322 Life Sciences Building
Population and community ecology, river ecology, predator-prey interactions, science education.

Halley Froehlich

Assistant Professor

4007 Bren Hall
The Froehlich Lab studies the sustainability of seafood and marine ecosystems under climate change.

Steve Gaines

Professor

2410 Bren Hall
Marine ecology, sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, oceans and climate change.

Scott Hodges

Professor

4105 Life Sciences Building
Our laboratory studies the genetic basis of adaptation and speciation using genomic analyses and field-based studies in the genus Aquilegia (Columbines).

Gretchen Hofmann

Professor

4310 Marine Science Institute
Global change biology and marine physiology.

Débora Iglesias-Rodriguez

EEMB Department Chair
Professor

3151 Marine Biotech
Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez has worked for twenty years on diversity and function in marine phytoplankton combining molecular approaches, carbon physiology and biogeochemistry in the lab and in the field.

Anna James

Assistant Teaching Professor

How students think and learn in large, introductory STEM courses and the effects of climate change on marine microbia

Armand Kuris

Professor

2002 Marine Biotech
The mission of our research group is to reveal the role of infectious diseases in ecosystems. We investigate parasite ecology, disease ecology, food web dynamics, ecology and evolution of infectious strategies, and control of human parasites.

John Latto

Senior Lecturer

4324 Life Sciences Building

Population and community ecology; host-parasitoid interactions.

Sally MacIntyre

Professor

4308 Marine Science Institute
Limnology and Coastal Oceanography, with particular emphasis on physical-biological coupling.

Susan J. Mazer

Professor

4119 Life Sciences Building
Quantitative evolutionary genetics, mating system evolution, adaptation, pollination ecology, and floral evolution.

Douglas McCauley

Associate Professor

2314 Marine Science Institute
Ecology; Conservation Science.

Holly Moeller

Assistant Professor

1120 Noble Hall
Uses mathematics, experiments, and field observations to understand how metabolic interactions between species shape the structure and function of ecological communities.

Todd Oakley

Professor

4101 Life Sciences Building
Macroevolution, phylogenetics, bioluminescence, vision, molecular evolution, complexity, marine organismal biology.

Ryoko Oono

Associate Professor

1116 Noble Hall
Plant-microbe evolution and ecology, microbial species diversity and taxonomy, evolution of symbiosis.

Stephen Proulx

Associate Professor

4109 Life Sciences Building
Mathematical theory of evolutionary and eco-evolutionary processes.

Joel Rothman

Professor

3137 Bio II
Evolutionary and quantitative genetics of development, robustness and fidelity of complex systems, interstellar biology.

Joshua Schimel

Professor

1108 Noble Hall
Soil and ecosystem ecology, microbial ecology, nutrient cycling, soil organic matter.

Russell Schmitt

Professor

3314 Marine Science Institute
Population and community ecology; applied ecology; consumer-resource interactions; marine invertebrates and reef fishes.

Adrian Stier

Associate Professor

2108 Noble Hall
Ocean Resilience: biodiversity, assembly, and sustainability of harvested ocean ecosystems.

Samuel Sweet

Professor

1124 Noble Hall
Distributional ecology and systematics of western North American and Australian amphibians and reptiles; ecology and systematics of monitor lizards; mechanics of intergrade zones and of speciational processes; crypsis; functional and evolutionary morphology; ethnozoology; conservation biology.

Thomas Turner

Associate Professor

4103 Life Sciences
We seek to understand the genetic basis of behavioral variation by combining population genetics and neurobiology in Drosophila and other species.

David Valentine

Professor
Chair, IGPMS Earth Science

2017 Webb

Professor Valentine's research interests focus on the interaction of microbes and chemicals - how the smallest living

Rebecca Vega Thurber

Professor; Director of UCSB Marine Science Institute

MSRB 4326
Our lab studies the microbial and viral ecology of marine and terrestrial species. We also conduct work specifically on marine conservation, aiming to better evaluate the unseen biodiversity of marine systems and to identify innovative solutions to the global declines of key marine species.

Lizzy Wilbanks

Assistant Professor

2128 Noble Hall
I am interested how microbial interactions and tightly-coupled biogeochemical cycles drive the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations, with a current focus on the bacteria and archaea of marine aggregates and biofilms.

Soojin Yi

Professor

4107 Life Science Building
An evolutionary biologist using genomic and epigenomic tools to study regulatory evolution.

Hillary Young

Professor
Faculty Grad Advisor

2116 Noble Hall
Community ecology, conservation biology, global change biology, disease ecology, food-web ecology.